Re: the future of GNOME Applets

[Stephane Demurget <stephane demurget free fr>]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 16:31 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> This applet is quite nice, however, the strings could use some de-
> l33tifier (unless we expect our users to know what a "userspace
> governor" is)
I really directed my work towards HIG, so thanks because I think that's the only thing I didn't fixed in the naming scheme stuff.
> , and it's not clear whether an additional daemon (like
> cpufreq) is needed, or if it replaces it.
cpufreqd you mean ? from the portion of source code I read, I thought it was designed to create virtual profiles based on specific frequencies and all ... it seemed overkill and difficult to provide a really friendly and easy to use popup menu, because the user needs to administrate the range of frequencies.
> For longer term, see my rant in the Red Hat bugzilla:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=131537#c4
> Basically, there shouldn't be an applet...
Yeah, you're true. But these require a lot of architectural changes. That's why an applet could be an okay-ish temporary solution for a few Gnome releases I believe, because we're not ready to see something of this level in the kernel any time soon.

cheers,

--Stef